Product Description: Most celebrated works of architecture of the early 21st century are what one would describe as spectacular; incredible cantilevers, rotating towers, gigantic cupolas and exuberant shapes are features without which a contemporary building would hardly register in the skyline or the media...read more

Product Description: Green Dream investigates what "green" means in practical terms for design, architecture and urbanism. Led by The Why Factory, the urbanist thinktank headed by Winy Maas, experts in the field debate what is currently considered green and how the term ought to be defined going forward, challenging architectural conventions and looking into the potential of new green architecture...read more

Product Description: Founded by Winy Maas, The Why Factory concentrates on the production of models and visualizations for future cities. It runs independent research projects, PhD programs, architecture and urbanism studios, postgraduate studios at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, and workshops and debates...read more

Product Description: With this ambitious volume, The Why Factory throws down the gauntlet to the city of Hong Kong. A theoretical and visual expedition into Hong Kong's future, Hong Kong Fantasies plots out alternative paths, new visions and strategies for the city's urban and architectonic future, including visual renderings of the most probable scenarios and spatial interventions...read more

Product Description: Recognizing that our civic responsibilities towards our environments have drastically increased, Visionary Cities ambitiously sets the agenda for the city of the future. Amid crippling bureaucracies and economic crises, present-day thinking on city design remains woefully inadequate, and this first publication in NAi's Future Cities Series announces 12 civic issues that are in need of transformation through the researches of The Why Factory, a global urban-studies thinktank operated in part by the Delft University of Technology...read more

Product Description: From the 2006 Marcus Prize Studio at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Winy Maas of MVDRV and Grace La of UWM present the work of twelve students who explored the relationship between infrastructure, architecture, and urban form...read more

Product Description: Dutch architect and urban designer Winy Maas posed a provocative question to a workshop for young architects: Could they redesign the cities of Rotterdam and New York so that everything could be reached within five minutes? This book looks at the responses to such a challenging brief, and the answers will surprise anyone who has considered the form of the modern city...read more

Product Description: Design research in the form of a book is what Nordic Enterprise provides. This volume from the high-profile Dutch architecture firm MVRDV, presents three of their projects, each covered extremely thoroughly with sketches, plans, computer-generated models, and photography, along with extensive written documentation concerning the site, as well as the design challenges, functions, and ideas for the particular project...read more

Product Description: The Spanish coastal area has become a tremendous economic success. In 50 years it has turned into the densest 'city' in Europe due to a series of attractions that are lacking elsewhere: sun, sea, food, freedom, cheapness. But despite these huge advantages, it is condemned for its monocular behaviour, for its lack of history, taste and culture, its total ignorance of ecological responsibility...read more